As President of Princeton, he was a talked about and written about man.

He began to drive for funds.

He hired 50 new tutors to superintend the student studies,

according to the preceptorial system he had admired at Oxford and Cambridge.

He made plans to abolish the snobbish eating clubs,

which took the place of the forbidden fraternities,

and to divide the university into colleges in the English manner, where students and tutors

would eat their meals together. He tightened up the curriculum. Sons of wealthy alumni

found themselves flunking out. He's spoiling the best country club in America,' groaned the old grads,

but for a while they went along, even in the face of a drop in enrollment.

Led by Grover Cleveland and M. Taylor Pine, wealthy Princetonians began to make really

sizable contributions.

Ralph Adams' Cram was designing the new quadrangles in the new Tudor Gothic style dear to the hearts of the Anglophiles.

These were the years of Theodore Roosevelt's new nationalism.

The president of Princeton, who was described as fighting the entrenched snobbery of privileged wealth in the colleges was greatly in demand as a speaker.

His reforms at Princeton had at first clear sailing, but now opposition was raising its head.

He ran up against another Presbyterian, equally enthusiastic for a great future at Princeton,

but with somewhat different ideas as to how to bring it about.

Andrew West was Dean of the graduate school. At first, he and Wilson agreed as to how this

school, which they were both promoting, should fit into the new scheme. Differences of opinion

as to details turned into a personal contest of wills.

The rankers of the Presbytery began to work in both men.

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